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Recycling with new cart starts in January

KING CITY - By now most residents of King City and the unincorporated Washington County areas nearby have received a large blue cart with a blue lid to go along with the other cart provided by Pride Disposal Company.

The new cart is for Co-Mingle Recycling. Rather than sorting through the recycled materials and separating them out for the red bins, it all goes in the same container and is picked up starting this month on Mondays, have the city one week and half on the next week.

However, don't give up on the red bins, as glass items still need to be separated out from the other recyclable material. What can go in the new bin is scrap paper, envelopes, office paper, letters need to be opened and separated from contents before putting them in the cart.

Shredded paper, but it must be bagged. Newspapers, magazines, phone books can all go in. Flattened cardboard, and plastic bottles, if the neck is smaller than the body (discard the lid), aluminum and tin cans.